In his debut feature Mad Bastards, writer / director Brendan Fletcher achieves both the former and the latter, in a heartfelt and haunting story of three
generations of men in the Five Rivers region of the Kimberleys in Western Australia.
She describes how five
generations of men in Cotton's family were denied the right to vote — by slavery, by the KKK, and by literacy tests and poll taxes.
An extended letter from a 76 - year - old preacher to his 7 - year - old son, this Pulitzer Prize winning novel explores the struggles, faith, and conflicts encountered by four
generations of men in the Ames family.
Not exact matches
But somehow, Seventh
Generation managed not only to survive but to thrive, as have the two entrepreneurs — although the beliefs
of both
men, and their philosophies about entrepreneurship
in general and socially responsible businesses
in particular, have changed
in ways neither would have thought possible.
Tom Hanks solidifies himself as one
of the greatest actors
of his
generation with this look at a
man whose life intersects with some
of the greatest moments
in history while trying to connect with his true love, Jenny.
As a second -
generation winemaker, Mr Pannell knew there was plenty
of talent and a whole world
of knowledge among the offspring
of the
men and women who first pruned vines
in Western Australia.
Later
in June, a
man thought to be a boss
in the Tijuana New
Generation cartel, a group formed by the CJNG and remnants
of the Tijuana cartel, was arrested
in Los Cabos.
«Thousands
of years
of men innovating society and a single
generation where women start to do better (
in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to
men.»
For a
generation of business - hungry black
men in their twenties and thirties, there is another question to answer — and that's whether it's too late.
For centuries, saddles were made by
men, for
men, and often,
in recent
generations, with little concern about the well - being
of the horse.
The soft power initiative also has involved a coordinated effort to upgrade the quality
of China's diplomatic corps, replacing an older
generation of media - shy, stiff bureaucrats with a younger group
of Chinese
men and women, many
of whom are fluent
in English and comfortable bantering with local journalists.
Jack Bogle, the founder
of mutual fund giant Vanguard, and the
man who popularized index funds, is part
of an older
generation of financiers, including people like Warren Buffett, who believe
in long - term, low - cost investing, paying their taxes, and giving away most
of their money.
At Space Angels, it is our strongly - held belief that,
in our
generation, the people who carry the mantle
of this «answerable courage» are not only the young
men and women who are risking their lives to go into space, but also the entrepreneurs who are putting everything they have on the line to build a future
in space for all humanity.
The greatest
generation of entrepreneurs
in Canadian history will retire within the next 10 to 15 years, and these
men and women are looking for a way to exit their companies
in a way that meets their needs.
RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical
man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides
man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next
generation a lot
of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people
in only 6,000 years were the majority
of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe
in him, even though he could easily save them...
It's all about self control and respecting the dignity
of the other person during the most beautiful act a
man and woman can engage
in, not turning it into the most popular contact sport
of our
generation.
Heeding the words
of Paul — «
in Christ there is neither bond nor free, Jew nor Greek, male nor female» —
generation upon
generation, impeded often by formidable circumstances, succeeded
in strengthening
in men's minds the significance
of the divine order
of the world and, within that order,
of the individual.
The face
of addiction a
generation ago was that
of the working - class or upper - middle - class
man, probably long and intimately known to his neighbors, who stood up at an AA meeting
in a church basement and bluntly said, «Hi, I'm X, and I'm an alcoholic.»
satans aim was to stop the fulfillment
of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and
man created giants abominations
in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants
in the land
of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine
of the seed
of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time
of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy
of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing
of the angels and
man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but
in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from
generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe
in him.brentnz
It will become clear how he identified three essential tasks
in Eve's very being, or as he wrote, «the dignity and role
of woman is... the guarantee
of what «feminine» humanly symbolizes: acceptance, care
of man,
generation of life.»
``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each
generation, and modern means
of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched
in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices
of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate
of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to
men around him, but savour to them
of superstition and magic.»
For the faithful
in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed
men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural
generation from him, the first parent
of all, or that Adam signifies some kind
of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources
of revealed truth and the acts
of the magisterium
of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by
generation, and exists
in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).
And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details
of the daily life and an authority
in things nonspiritual instead
of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository
of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching
of the God - knowing
men of other
generations.»
Men were already living
in the «last days»; the end
of the ages had come upon their
generation.
121:8.14 — While I, with the collaboration
of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision
of the Melchizedek
of record, have portrayed this narrative
in accordance with my concept
of its effective arrangement and
in response to my choice
of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority
of the ideas and even some
of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin
in the minds
of the
men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening
generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time
of this undertaking.
It is young
men and women such as these that encourage me
in my conviction that the world is much safer
in the hands
of the newer
generation than it ever was with those
of my own older
generation or
of the
generation between me and those former students.
The thinker who was most influential
in shaping our anthropology was Reinhold Niebuhr, whose Nature and Destiny
of Man informed a whole
generation of thinking
in the United States.
The Founders» Constitution is,
in the editors» words, «an anthology
of reasons and
of the political arguments that thoughtful
men and women drew from, and used to support those reasons» (I: xi) The «reasons» and «arguments» are those
of the founding
generation and
of the works that the» founders read.
Obviously,
men could not pass through the experience
of death and out again into a resurrected life
in masses; death
in any
generation is not like a wide thoroughfare but like a turnstile, through which
men go one by one.
There is some sort
of connection, I think, between the sons
of God and daughters
of men, and their offspring the Nephilim, and how all this relates to the great evil that covered the earth and how Noah was «blameless
in his
generations» (a very strange Hebrew phrase).
For it is apparent to us, as it was not to the ancients with their ignorance
of genetics, that physical
generation is involved
in what it means to be «
man»; and Jesus is not a demi - god but the Son
of God truly made
man.
Educating the father
of his people means,
in the first instance, educating him to be a proper husband and father; for the perpetuation
of God's new way will depend not on a fortuitous succession
of naturally virtuous
men and women, but on the proper rearing
of the young
in every
generation to the task
of transmitting their moral and spiritual heritage.
With a certain simplification
of the state
of affairs, which however brings out more clearly the decisive factor without falsifying it, we might say that formerly the object and situation
of a
man's action were simply data supplied by nature with which he was
in contact and by simple human realities which recurred from
generation to
generation again and again.
In every
generation the Word
of God calls
men to faith and obedience.
It is the memorial
of an agreement that deems it necessary (hence, conventional); it must be made by
man (hence, artificial); yet it is marked
in the organ
of generation (hence, also natural).
It is essentially a way
of faith, by which
man,
in whatever
generation he lives, is summoned by the Word
of God to concern himself with the human scene, for this is God's concern.
Jud 1:14 It was also about these
men that Enoch,
in the seventh
generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, «Behold, the Lord came with many thousands
of His holy ones, Jud 1:15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly
of all their ungodly deeds which they have done
in an ungodly way, and
of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.»
Man's immortalizing impulse leads him to the need to believe that beyond the sacrifice
of his own death he will
in some way enjoy a connection with succeeding
generations.
Now Matthew and Luke continue with Jesus» apt comparison
of the
men of that
generation with children
in the marketplace, peevishly complaining that their companions will not play either a happy or a mournful game with them (Mt 11:16 - 19; Lk 7:31 - 35).
When Frei was writing on these matters
in the 1960s, Barth seemed to many obsolete, like a
man writing a great defense
of Ptolemaic astronomy two
generations after Copernicus.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (
Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infid
Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent
in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all
men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infid
men, keep women, children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (
Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes
in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics
in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay
men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infid
men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray
in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent
in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following
generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
A statement
in both Gospels interprets this: the
men of Nineveh, who repented when Jonah preached to them, will arise at the judgment and condemn the
generation that has not repented at the preaching
of Jesus.
It was inspirational from God to
man to preserve their tilts
in effort to gain a
generation of servant.
2 Given this author's care and demonstrated reliability, as well as his contact with eyewitnesses within the first
generation after the events, this
man can be trusted when it comes to matters
in the life
of Jesus for which we do not enjoy independent confirmation.
In conclusion, This had nothing to do with Jesus returning in the generation of those me
In conclusion, This had nothing to do with Jesus returning
in the generation of those me
in the
generation of those
men.
It is this which gives Jesus his central place and role, and it is from this centrality, or particular «importance,»
in our understanding and
in our living, that the evaluation
of Jesus himself, his significance
in the total scheme
of things, his continuing impact on successive
generations of men and women, takes its rise.
In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactio
In our
generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions
of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force
in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactio
in final satisfactions: hope that the power
of Jesus as lure will reassert itself
in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactio
in an aesthetic context devoid
of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes
of van Buren) the vision
of Jesus, the free
man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision
in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactio
in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.
Only after we have recognized the Christian hope
in this form, are we
in a position to ask the humanist or the Marxist if his work for the renewal
of society and for the future
generations of mankind actually exhausts the meaning
of hope for the
man of the new world.
To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story
of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result
of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims
of generations and
generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight
of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth
of feeling
in human satisfactions.
What an innumerable number have felt the need
of going further than the Socratic ignorance — presumably because they felt that it was impossible for them to stay there; for
in every
generation how many
men are there that are capable, even for only a month,
of enduring and existentially expressing ignorance about everything?